This isn't voter fraud. This is election fraud. 

This. A million times.

I didn't see anyone disrespecting him. I saw a comment suggesting the amount of praise being heaped upon him might be unwarranted. If all political discourse could be that disrespectful, the world would be in much better shape.

My understanding is that from the point of view of the LGBTQ+ communities, policies of Reagan and later Bush led to horrific suffering and death in mass numbers by allowing the AIDS epidemic to run rampant. I was too young to really know about that at the time, so this is what I have observed others saying since he passed. I suspect that may be part of the complains being made elsewhere.

And I say that Trump has long-since abandoned any remote pretense of deserving the respect of the office due to his open contempt for it and our government.

There was a time I thought the Democratic Party most in need of bowing out to a new party. I first got interested in U.S. politics when Jimmy Carter was elected and followed a decline for the U.S. and his speeches excoriating people to stop using gas and oil. He was a nice man I'm sure but boy, did he seem unprepared to work with the system in Washington. And then when Mondale was running he just seemed to be throwing all kinds of grand visions out there hoping to catch one special interest group or another. It did change with the Clintons but that's another story (and did I dislike Tipper Gore at the time).

Now the Republican Party needs to be reborn as an actual conservative party that is non-revolutionary and more centrist. I see them as in the pocket of special interests far more than the usual liberal pandering to this minority or that agenda by a factor of ten, or else bought and paid for. I know about Newt Gingrich and how he would keep getting reelected because he brought so much pork barrel to Cobb County Georgia, and he, Karl Rove and the perpetually angry Tea Party are no basis for a conservative party. A third party might find an opening somewhere outside all that recent reactionary, negative, repeating of short slogans junk. A new bigger tent without the baggage. Like Reagan's ignorance about AIDS, probably based on some evangelical simple-minded junk inserted with the religion (they seem to forget about if one loaf of bread is asked to give two in 'His' name).

All the divisions are the opposite of United and you have to start to figure out who and what is exacerbating and exploiting them, and it was not Barrack & Michelle Obama for 'being' black (or gay people 'being' gay). People have kept a lot of the Confederate stuff going for a real reason, to irritate and even intimidate. That's why they were putting up so many of those statues honoring the Civil War during the civil rights movement in the '50s-'70s. The confederate flag waving over state buildings was not so far removed from seeing a swastika brandished publicly, and I remember there were some 'parades' of that in the '70s that made me sick (had a Great Uncle beaten to death in occupied Holland for organizing a transit stoppage to protest Jewish men being marched off in the night), and also it makes you angry which is why they are doing it, they want the reaction, the them for their us to react to.

I don't know what we're going to do if the U.S. falls apart, starts feeling laws and rules don't apply for some 'great' vision. I always want representatives that will do a job, not be personalities with balloons and banners (and hats)!